This is the fourth installment of Rolling Stone’s Music in Crisis series, which looks at how people all across the music industry are coping with the coronavirus pandemic. The Bluebird Cafe is one Nashville‘s most important and idiosyncratic venues: an impossibly tiny listening room where songwriters and surprise guests like …
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Welcome to week eleventy-seven of sheltering at home! Perhaps by now you’ve taken up macramé, or teaching yourself Latin, or, ew, yoga. Us, we’re still watching all the TV. And at this point, our choices seem to be falling into one of three categories: hot-off-the-presses new series; classic, all-time-great shows …
Read More »How a Nashville Production Company Plans to Return to Filming
As Tennessee begins to slowly restart its economy following a monthlong shutdown to combat the coronavirus pandemic, the state’s film and TV production companies are weighing the risks of rolling cameras too soon. Riverside Entertainment, a Nashville– and L.A.-based company that creates video content for clients including ABC, Disney, Spotify …
Read More »Watch Vegas Mayor Advocate Survival of the Fittest Reopening Strategy, With Total Disregard for Human Life
Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman has made news of late for calling Nevada’s coronavirus shutdown “total insanity,” but following a Tuesday cable-news interview, it’s Goodman’s sanity that should be questioned. The Independent mayor made wild health assertions while making her case for a reopening of Vegas during an interview with …
Read More »5 Burning Questions About the 'Better Call Saul' Season 5 Finale — Answered
Ask most fans of Better Call Saul about the show’s fifth season, which concludes tonight, and they’ll not only tell you that it is the AMC drama’s best to date, but also that this was the year they began seriously grappling with the question of whether the Breaking Bad prequel …
Read More »Jane Goodall on Fighting Sexism and What Chimpanzees Taught Her
Famed anthropologist, conservationist, and activist Jane Goodall should be celebrating the 60th anniversary of the start of her field work with chimpanzees in Tanzania. Instead, like the rest of the world, she’s practicing social isolation at home in England. She recently wrote an op-ed in Slate that correctly points out …
Read More »Welcome to the Trumpocalypse
Donald Trump had such high hopes for Easter. So high, in fact, that when he burst forth on Fox News a couple of weeks ago with his idea of “re-opening” the country wide this coming Sunday, he gave it an exemplary rating of three “beautifuls”: “I just thought that it …
Read More »Sting, Jimmy Fallon, the Roots Remix 'Don't Stand So Close to Me' at Home
The Police’s “Don’t Stand So Close to Me” is a fitting anthem for quarantine, self-isolation and social-distancing during the coronavirus pandemic. So, naturally, Jimmy Fallon has helped put together a new version of the song that feels especially appropriate for the times. Recorded as part of The Tonight Show‘s “At Home” …
Read More »John Prine: A Never-Ending Christmas and an Aw-Shucks Smile
John Prine loved Christmas. When he recorded what would be his final studio album, 2018’s The Tree of Forgiveness, he dragged a lit-up Christmas tree that he kept in his office year-round to the recording studio in the middle of July. “I don’t like to see Christmas trees torn down,” …
Read More »A Year Later, Lil Nas X Shares the Challenges of Coming Out
Despitethe endless memes and savvy digital practices of Lil Nas X, the real-life of Montero Lamar Hill has remained relatively guarded since his meteoric rise to fame. In June, the “Old Town Road” singer shared lyrics to “C7sure” and the rainbo-featuring album artwork to come out to his followers during …
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